Homœopathy : its nature and relative value / by Archibald Reith ; with an appendix by D. Dyce Brown.

  • Reith, Archibald.
Date:
1868
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    and Pid., op. cit. voL i. p. 846; Pereira^ op. cit. p. 1891 ; and a case published by Dr. Sanders of Edinburgh, in Edin. Med. Journ., Feb., 1868. paths to employ this substance in dis¬ eases of the shin ; but alreadij, before them, Dufresnoy of Valenciennes had published a paper in which he highly praised the virtues of this plant against skin diseases, and, later, against par¬ alysis. Since that time we have found from time to time essays on this sub¬ stance in the different periodicals, and many reliable physicians have confirmed Dufresnoy’s experiences.” 33. BUE Is well knovm to medical men to be capable of producing abortion, and as an emmenagogue. It causes an active sanguine congestion in the uterus, and a stimulation of its muscular fibres, which determines their contraction.” (Trouss. and Pidoux, op. cit. vol. ii. ]3. 606.) (RUTA). Dr. Beau (Trouss. and Pid., op. cit., vol ii. p. 607,) recommends it along with savine in metrorrhagia. 'Mn the anaemia consecutive on passive menorr¬ hagia. M. Beau says he has obtained good results from the combination of rue and iron (1 to 2 centigrammes— about ^ grain of powdered rue in the day), and he continues this treatment for some time to prevent relapses” (ibid). 34. SAVIN The emmenagogue properties of savin are more marked than those of rue. Its action goes sometimes the length of producing serious irritative congestions of the uterus, and violent menorrhagia. (Trouss. and Pid., op. cit., vol. ii. p. 606.) (SABINA). “ Dr. Beau recommends against metrorrhagia a mixture of the powder of rue and of savin ; he considers this mixture as possessing superior efiicacy to that of ergot of rye.” He gives 1^ grains of savin night and morning (Trouss. and Pid., op. cit., vol. ii. p. 607.) 35. SILVER (ARGENTU^vI). (nitrate Produces in an overdose paOi in the stomach, nausea, vomiting, purging, with irritation of the gastric mucous mem¬ brane (Pereira, op. cit., p. 886 ; Wood, op. cit., vol. i. p. 391. ) OF SILVER.) Pereira (op. cit., p. 887,) says, In chronic affections of the stomach, (espe¬ cially of morbid sensibility of the gastric and intestinal nerves) it has been fa¬ vourably spoken of by Autenreith, Dr. James Johnson, and Rueff. It has been employed to allay chronic vomit¬ ing connected with disordered innerva¬ tion, as well as with disease of the stomach (schirrus and cancer), and to relieve gastrodynia.”